"Print to file" PDF metadata broken

It is the same for me.

I still see this issue in 12.04 and it seems the bug is based on the Cairo lib, since it also occurs on other programs creating PDFs based on libcairo like Inkscape

I forgot to mention, actual version of libcairo I am using actually is libcairo2 1.10.2-6.1ubuntu3 and printing date "Jan 1st, 1970 00:59:59 CET" apperas on each system 32bit and 64bit.

Greetings, Michael

Just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 using libcairo2-1.12.2-1ubuntu2 on Ubuntu 12.10 64bit and the printing date is still "Jan 1st, 1970 00:59:59 CET". My timezone is set to CET or at the moment CEST.
The pity is I have no other cairo using OSes by hand so I am afraid I cannot proof whether the bug is Ubuntu/Debian specific or a general libcairo bug.

Greetings, Michael

I'm noticing this on ubuntu 12.10 (32-bit)

In addition to the print to file, this bug affects several programs, at the very least SImple Scan and Inkscape.

When viewing the pdf properties with evince, it says the pdf was created by libcairo 1.9.5

The same issue still happens in 14.04. I think I should get used to it ;-)

Michael

I'm on 15.04 and I'm still having this issue. Any workaround?

The same here. Ubuntu 15.04 and Cairo 1.9.5

Quite frustrating issue...

After 5 years from my first comment above, the annoying bug is still here.
Creator: cairo 1.14.6
Created: Thu 01 Jan 1970 01:59:59 EET

I have tried some solutions before i found this bug,

An extract of metadata made with exiftool (libimage-exiftool-perl 9.46-1) shows an important difference on a document that displaying dates right, and one sample print-to-file, the tags for PDF related date info is totally missing:

-PDF:CreateDate=
-PDF:ModifyDate=

Example command:
exiftool -args -G1 --filename --directory PDF_FILE_NAME.PDF

Example output of Print-to-File:
-ExifTool:ExifToolVersion=9.46
-System:FileSize=107 kB
-System:FileModifyDate=2018:02:22 00:56:18+01:00
-System:FileAccessDate=2018:02:22 00:56:40+01:00
-System:FileInodeChangeDate=2018:02:22 01:30:18+01:00
-System:FilePermissions=rw-rw-r--
-File:FileType=PDF
-File:MIMEType=application/pdf
-PDF:PDFVersion=1.5
-PDF:Linearized=No
-PDF:PageCount=1
-PDF:Creator=cairo 1.13.1 (http://cairographics.org)
-PDF:Producer=cairo 1.13.1 (http://cairographics.org)

Example output of PDF with working dates:
-ExifTool:ExifToolVersion=9.46
-System:FileSize=3.2 MB
-System:FileModifyDate=2015:11:02 14:37:59+01:00
-System:FileAccessDate=2018:02:22 01:49:42+01:00
-System:FileInodeChangeDate=2015:11:02 14:37:59+01:00
-System:FilePermissions=rw-r-----
-File:FileType=PDF
-File:MIMEType=application/pdf
-PDF:PDFVersion=1.5
-PDF:Linearized=No
-PDF:PageCount=89
-PDF:Language=en-US
-PDF:TaggedPDF=Yes
-PDF:Title=XenServer 6.x Best Practices
-PDF:Author=Daily, Camille
-PDF:Keywords=Minimum Restrictions, No Restrictions
-PDF:Creator=Microsoft® Word 2013
-PDF:CreateDate=2013:10:30 08:44:27-05:00
-PDF:ModifyDate=2013:10:30 08:44:27-05:00
-PDF:Producer=Microsoft® Word 2013

evince 3.10.3-0ubuntu10.4 amd64
libcairo2 1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1.1 amd64
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Kernel: Linux 3.13.0-142-generic #191-Ubuntu SMP x86_64